below: But maybe not here, even if they are two comfy sofas! Comfy but wet.

Meandering on a day early in November

while the trees were still showing their last hurrah of colour.

This mural is on Roncesvalles is partially obscured but is still a welcome splash of colour and vibrance.

I love the raccoons! Pink raccoons

and blue raccoons on street art that I haven’t seen before.

Crooked lines,

tight spaces,

and old glass. All kinds of alterations.

Peeling paint on diamonds (once red?)

and water drops on leaves (definitely red).

One very pink car. Whiskey for Whiskers.

Uber 5000’s yellow birdies and friends are still on the side of Tommy’s Gift & Variety.

And next door you Coffee and breakfast at Tina’s while your tax returns are prepared.

Semi neighbours

at the edges of gentrification.

Lights over the train tracks

and graffiti beside.

A fine and dandy tractor

and a great idea

She’s gone green but she’s got the blues.

and Ontario’s now orange.

A family outing

below: The building with the giraffe pattern on top, at Bloor and Dundas West, is still there.

below: The murals painted by Wallnoize are still there. They were painted in the spring of 2015 and I posted a lot of photos of them shortly after that.

below: The murals run under the Bloor Street underpass (railway tracks overhead), on both sides of the street.

below: The new MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) is now open on Sterling Road. The renovations to the old Tower Automotive building aren’t totally complete; most of the area is a construction site. But the museum opened earlier this year. Access from the West Toronto Railpath is available.

It was the last night of October, the rain had stopped earlier in the evening, and Church Street was closed between Gloucester and Wood streets. It was ‘Halloween on Church’, an annual street party filled with costumes on display wanting to be seen and other people wanting to see and take pictures. These photos represent only a small selection of what there was to be seen that night (obviously!).

below: A one night stand to remember

below: Glowing red and green

below: Japanese ghouls, dressed to kill?

below: White man on keyboard.

below: A group of people went as the 3D Toronto sign.

below: More playing with lights, this time as stick people.

below: Looking at instagram in a new light, from a different point of view.

below: With a doll and a lit candle

below: With a doll and a dog.

below: This one is for Jude, something about wanting to take this one home with her…..

below: More words, this time “It’s a beautiful day in the neighbourhood.” A quote from the TV show, ‘Mr. Rogers Neighbourhood’ along with a picture of Daniel Striped Tiger, a hand puppet from the same show.

below: Shafia Shaik working on her mural. The word GLOW has been cut off. The finished work was signed as EWOK project standing for Equity for Women of (K)olour.

below: A mural by muisca. The finished mural has green leaves and vines on both sides of the face.

below: Peering through the window at the remains of Yuk Wing cleaners on Gerrard St. East

below: Sometimes you can’t look in the window – something is in the way! It wasn’t until I was looking at the picture on my computer that I noticed that the newspaper is in a language that I don’t understand. I typed the headline to the left of the heart into google translate, “Niemiecka chemia zapanuje nad swiatem” and it told me that the words were Polish and translate to “German chemistry will dominate the world”. The article is about the purchase of Monsanto by Bayer.

below: A portion of the black cowboy silhouette remains in the now empty Tortilla Flats restaurant.

below: The effects of morning light shining into the Thai Luna restaurant.

below: More morning sunlight, this time it leaves traces of fried chicken.

Anthropocene
an exhibit of photographs by Edward Burtynsky
highlighting the mark that man is leaving on the environment.

below: Lithium Mine #1, Salt Flats, Atacama Desert, Chile, 2017 . The Salar de Atacama is the largest salt flat in Chille, located in the driest non-polar desert in the world. This is also the world’s greatest source of lithium. The shades of yellow, green, and blue represent the different stages of lithium evaporation.

below: Uralkali Potash Mine #4, Berezniki Russia, 2017. This Russian mine includes about 3000 km of underground tunnels created by machines called combines used in the potash extraction process. These spaces are dark. The spiral patterns are left by the combines.

below: Morenci Mine #2, Clifton Arizona USA, 2012. Part of this photo shows the liquid reserves of waste left over from the copper extraction process. The marble like colours are the result of leached heavy metals. Copper smelting requires between 1500 and 3000 litres of water for every to of processed ore.